AP Language - Terms Quiz

Define "Comic Relief"

• Humorous scene is inserted into a serious story

• A brief and relevant episode

• The literal, explicit meaning of a word

• Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of the people and the world

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An aphorism is a terse term which expresses a general truth or moral principle

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Define "Polysyndeton"

• When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme

• When a poet creates a rhyme, but two words do not rhyme exactly

• When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions

• A regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Aristotle's appeals are the goal of argumentative writing to persuade an audience that one's ideas are valid, or more valid than others, through the use of diction, tone, and syntax

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.W.9-10.1

Choose the response with 4 fallacies

• Ad hominem, counterexample, cliche thinking, bad analogy

• False cause, hasty generalization, ad hominem, straw man

• Straw man, slippery slope, non sequitur, valid argument

• Unstated premises, bad analogy, appeal to authority, cliche thinking

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CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

A _ is a seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true

• Classicism

• Paradox

• Motif

• Ellipsis

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words is _.

• Antithesis

• Pun

• Sarcasm

• Persona

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. It borrows words or phrases from an original and pokes fun at it.

• Parody

• Clause

• Pun

• Classicism

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

_ is sentence structure which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns

• Parallelism

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Juxtoposition

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

Poetic devices include

• Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance, onomatopoeia, meter, rhyme scheme, free verse, sonnet, internal rhyme

• Onomatopoeia, meter, rhyme scheme, sonnet, assonance, consonance, alliteration, free verse, closed verse

• All of the above

• None of the above